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Optimus Primal by TGping

#transformers #beast wars #optimus primal

i’ve invented a new microwave its called microwave 2. it randomly makes your food colder 9% of the time. don’t worry i’ve already entered your home and replaced your old microwave with it. im very good at technology

starlightomatic

this is about google’s ai overview

finnglas

gonna be real i thought this was just about normal microwaves

nonbinary-bosmer

I'm not a mecha person, but spirits above help me if I don't love seeing mechs with very mundane jobs. Seeing something that would be a battlefield weapon loading luggage at the airport scratches such a weird itch in my brain.

nonbinary-bosmer

Like just imagine watching someone do those classic suiting up scenes, with the epic music and visuals as they zip on theor plug suit and connect their neural hemets and telepresence fists....and then start going to town on some industrial roof repair or haybale collection, not a care in the world about cybernetics eating their souls and personality but rather about if they'll get to lunch early enough for the good pizza

heroineimages

Naturally it's piloted by an anime girl with bright hair an unnatural color and a flight-suit that's unnecessarily tight and possibly a jacket that doesn't quite reach her waist. She dons her helmet with the built-in HUD and plugs in to the interface, and her mech stomps it's way into a neighborhood. It looms ominously over the houses. Then it leans down, picks up a recycling bin, dumps it into the previously unseen bin on its back. It sets the bin back down and continues down the street.

nonbinary-bosmer

While they are distracted with their duties, a mysterious masked pilot stalks them in their blind spot. Silently, they raise a massive Power-gun at the protagonists mech and blasts them… with the high-pressure industrial washer spray, telling them off for not cleaning up their mech and the storage bays after their shifts

pallidpunkprincess

big cast slice of life show about various workers doing normal jobs with mechs and hanging out

heated rivalry between pizza delivery mech girls

fire truck mech girl trying not to scare a cat stuck in a tree

forklift mech girl who does tricks to put away cargo more efficiently

nonbinary-bosmer

Exactly this! Like the characters can make throw away references to mechsploitation genre and its tropes but the focus of the story is always on the shenanigans they get up to doing their jobs in mech.

Like the forklift girl commenting that the latest health and safety inspector looks like their old battlefield handler but the focus on the episode is about them trying to repair their out of date mech

majingojira

Patlabor is probably the closest we will get to that. Amazing series.

But Bullbuster comes close to it as well, at least in terms of Mecha design.

Along similar lines, there's Dai-Guard. This is more of a Super Robot show, but using Real Robot rules. It's about a giant robot that's owned by an Insurance Company. 'Office Workers Saving the World!'

Paperwork is as big an enemy as the monster of the week!

And that covers the last 30 years of Mecha series being down to earth and silly.

#mecha

maswartz

Story idea for a combiner team

The usual set up, Autobots vs Decepticons.

Two Autobots and Two Decepticons are sent to a distant world to find the long lost Enigma of Combination. On the way there their ships are both damaged and they crash on the planet.

On the planet the four race to find the Enigma and discover it in possession of a neutral bot who long ago fled the war. A battle breaks out and in the struggle the Enigma is activated turning the five into a combiner with the neutral bot as the torso and head and the others as limbs. Making a "temporary" truce to make it back to Cybertron the five take parts from both damaged ships and make a working craft, however the navigation units were both broken beyond repair causing the five to embark on a journey from world to world to find their way back to Cybertron and a war they increasingly find themselves reluctant to rejoin. The pairs represent the extremes of each side. Autobots Swiftshot- Turns into a race car. The youngest of the five. Optimistic and eager to fight the good fight. A paragon of justice and defender of peace. Headwind- Turns into a jet. Haunted by self doubt and regrets over what he did and what he didn't do during the war. Most of all by the horrors he witnessed other autobots commit and even took part in.

Decepticons Terrornado- Turns into a helicopter. A proud techno-supremacist he believes that organics are a plague on the universe that will be wiped out by the Decepticon Empire. Warhead- Turns into a tank. Before the war he wanted to be an astrographer and chart the stars but due to his alt mode he was relegated to labor. He believes the Decepticons have strayed too far from their original cause and have become the very tyrants they once stood against. Neutral Flatbed- Turns into an alien pick-up truck. When the war broke out he saw the writing on the wall and fled Cybertron. He found his way to a peaceful techno-organic planet where he found a quiet life of farming the fruit the natives use as fuel. His only exposure to the war was through broadcasts and third parties and he grew disgusted and horrified by the destruction the war unleashed upon the universe. He considers both factions to blame for allowing the war to reach such a state. He keeps the Enigma of Combination hidden behind his own spark meaning that if any of the others wish to take it from him unwillingly they must extinguish his spark to do so.

Enigmax- The combiner formed from the five. Due to the conflicting natures at play it's difficult for Enigmax to function for long periods of time. However as the group travels and grows they learn to put their differences aside long enough for Enigmax to function properly. The usual configuration has Swiftshot and Terrornado as arms and Headwind and Warhead as legs with Flatbed acting as the torso and head.

#transformers

aroallo-imagines

I have an obsession with background characters im movies and I always imagine them as aroallo.

The hoth control room operator?

She's besties with that rebel that broke between Han and Leia

I like to imagine they roll their eyes at Han and Leia's alloromantic nonsense while they have hot platonic sex to keep warm on Hoth.

lieutenant-kettch

Adding 'Han and Leia's alloromantic nonsense' to my list of favorite phrases.

frakyeahbattlestargalactica

specialagentartemis

Intelligent alien species based on bugs but specifically those moths that don’t have mouths and only live for a week after they pupate. This species’ whole conscious life is actually in the larval phase; larvae are the ones considered people, larvae are the ones with conscious and complex brains who build society, and each instar of the larva is treated as a different phase of life. Larvae become emotionally and socially and cognitively mature without ever becoming sexually mature. When they pupate, they metamorphose into something different and strange and close to mindless, with no mouth and no digestive system, whose only instincts are to mate and then quickly die. Metamorphosis is treated, functionally, like a person’s death, and the imago phase is a kind of proto-afterlife of majestic flight and the continuation of the species. Birth and death inextricably intertwined. Sex is not something people do during their lives, it’s a thing that is done as an imago after you’ve passed on from your life but before you return to the soil in death. Resultant eggs are collected by family members to raise. I think this would be fun.

lieutenant-kettch

May I introduce you to Skynx, a Ruurian professor from Han Solo and the Lost Legacy by Brian Daley

From the Wookieepedia entry on Ruurians:

Ruurians went through three stages during their lives. Stage one: They were born as fourteen-legged larvae with each leg having four opposable fingers. First stage Ruurians also had fine, wide antennae on their heads, and large, multifaceted eyes. The larval Ruurians were also the most intelligent, artistic and creative members of the species, and were responsible for running Ruuria. Stage two The second stage of Ruurian life was the pupa stage. The larvae spun cocoons around themselves, and were transformed into the third stage of the Ruurian life cycle, the beautiful Chroma-Wing Fliers. Stage three The third and final stage of Ruurian life was the Chroma-Wing Flier stage. Stage three Ruurians were simple-minded creatures only interested in eating, flying and mating. They also had no interest in working.

mariacallous

lieutenant-kettch

interstellarnewsnetwork

18 photos from a trip to the set in Season 3 - Including one of the studio as it looked from outside in 1996, via Reddit

#babylon 5

brionysea

*sees whatever the fandom is doing* there's a really good story happening on the actual show if you want to watch that instead

asexual-spock

#mystery flesh pit

byjove

I just saw someone say “You need to read a book intended for adults.” instead of “Read a different book.” to a Harry Potter fan. Big fan of that.

byjove

The reaction to this post is making me realize I need to start saying this immediately.

byjove

They are books written for children. Children are the intended audience. Not that you cannot enjoy children’s books as an adult but that you should not be reading children’s books exclusively.